{"product_id":"bruce-lee-cut-from-the-beam","title":"Bruce Lee Cut From the Beam","description":"\u003cp\u003eBruce Lee Cut From the Beam holds him in the instant before the strike, fists raised, weight low, the whole body coiled into a stance that needs no caption to be recognised. Nothing about the fighter is spelled out. The face is left as pure dark, the features withheld, and it is the posture alone, the readiness in the shoulders and the set of the legs, that carries who he is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove him a single shaft of light falls from the dark, and that beam is where the work happens. A field of individual marks has been scratched into deep red coloured mirror glass, dense where the light is strongest, thinning as it reaches the floor, so the beam itself seems to be made of struck matches rather than paint. The figure below it stays in near total black, a silhouette holding its ground inside the light rather than dissolving into it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRed carries its own charge here. It is the colour of blood and of fight, of a body pushed to its edge, and against it the pale scratches read like sparks thrown off contact. The image is not applied onto the surface. It exists because material has been taken away, a controlled field of surface damage that catches the eye exactly where the light in the source image would have fallen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the surface is mirrored, the room enters the piece. Gallery walls, other frames, the viewer's own outline settle into the red around the fighter and drift across the polished floor beneath him, so anyone standing in front of the work becomes part of its stage. The beam of scratches stays fixed regardless of who is looking, present in daylight as much as under a spotlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLight does not create the image here. It sharpens it, deepening the contrast between the glowing beam and the black weight of the body until the whole stance seems to hum. Turn away and the fighter remains exactly where he was, caught mid breath under his own private spotlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBruce Lee Cut From the Beam continues the Art on Mirror series by Tijs Dragtsma, in which scratched imagery is set into coloured mirror glass and the viewer becomes part of the work. A visual language where damage is not destruction, but structure, and where the mirror turns looking into taking part. This work is unique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stillness held at the edge of a strike, lit from above, cut from red.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore about the artist, process and materials can be found on the About page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions about this work, availability or shipping can be sent through the contact page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TD Fine Art Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59429757714757,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/Bruce_Lee_Cut_From_the_Beam_thumbnail.jpg?v=1789939935","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/bruce-lee-cut-from-the-beam","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}